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Hitler's vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.

Aldous Huxley

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
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[...] Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event, reserved for victories and national holidays, for the canonization of saints and the crowning of kings. Now it occurs nightly and celebrates the virtues of gin, cigarettes and toothpaste.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
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A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.
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One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons-that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.
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The ductless glands secrete among other things our moods, our aspirations, our philosophy of life.
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The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.
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The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
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Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.
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An irrelevance, and your life's altered.
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Culture is like the sum of special knowledge that accumulates in any large united family and is the common property of all its members. When we of the great Culture Family meet, we exchange reminiscences about Grandfather Homer, and that awful old Dr. Johnson, and Aunt Sappho, and poor Johnny Keats.
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For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.
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In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every thought and feeling remains incommunicable, locked up in the impenetrable strong-room of the individual soul and body. Our life is a sentence of perpetual solitary confinement.
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The indispensible is not necessarily the desirable.
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Liberties are not given, they are taken.
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Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?
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Every gain made by individuals or societies is almost instantly taken for granted. The luminous ceiling toward which we raise our longing eyes becomes, when we have climbed to the next floor, a stretch of disregarded linoleum beneath our feet.
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A love of nature keeps no factories busy.
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In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.
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Happiness is never grand.
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If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
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